Yet while the story on the surface is about cable programming, the story below the surface provides yet another cautionary tale (here's a previous one about AT&T shoving public-access channels down a menu rat-hole on its programming service) about how the Internet could look if the big companies get their way.

Nor does it begin to answer the reality that every cent thrown down the reactor rat-hole could quickly save far more energy than such a reactor could produce -- if it ever did come on line after the seven-to-ten years it would take to license and build such a boondoggle.